Summer-Research Scholarships for Honors College Students
March 14, 2025 submission deadline
The Honors College will award a limited number of $4,000 Summer Research Scholarships
to encourage your participation in varied research environments under the guidance
of a faculty mentor. To qualify, you must not be graduating prior to May 2027 and
you will be responsible for locating a professor who is willing to supervise new or
ongoing research during the 10-week summer session (Dates TBA).
The Honors College Summer Scholarship is $4,000, spread over 2 payments intended to
help meet summer expenses. Beyond this, research hours are not compensated.
Factors of Deliberation
Factors such as GPA, intensity and length of past research, existing outcomes—for
example, exhibits, performances, co-authorship, or manuscripts under submission or
preparation—will figure in committee deliberations.
Students looking forward to their first research experience should still apply, but
with knowledge of criteria in the preceding paragraph.
Finding a Research Mentor
Students may wonder, “Where do I look if I am not currently conducting research that
will continue into the summer?”
- Consider approaching a professor with whom you have studied, and with whose research
project you are familiar.
- For broader UNT research opportunities, visit departmental web sites and explore the
research interests and creative activities (in the visual and performing arts) of
several faculty members. Then arrange Zoom or office visits to discuss the possibility
of your joining a research team, or engaging in a personalized creative endeavor,
for the summer, and perhaps longer.
- Talk with Undergraduate Research Fellows who are working with a professor on research
projects.
Program Requirements
- If a student receives funding for research from your mentor's grants or other sources,
the total amount received may not exceed $5,000, with the larger amount coming from
your mentor's grant. Thus, the Honors College Research scholarship amount may be adjusted
accordingly.
- Accepting an Honors College Summer Research Scholarship requires enrollment in a mentored
research course during the ten-week summer session (Dates TBA). Scholarship recipients
will enroll in HNRS 3996 or a departmental-equivalent for up to 3-credits.
- Scholarship recipients must submit a research poster (via PowerPoint slide) or paper
at the conclusion of the summer session. Those will be submitted to the Honors College
as a condition of earning Honors credit for the summer research experience. Students
must also present their work at UNT's 2027 Scholars Day event.
- Scholarship holders will be able to conduct either on-site or remote research in accord
with the wishes of their research mentors, and for at least 20 hours per week, as
determined in consultation with the research mentor.
- The Honors College Summer Research Scholarships are viable only for work conducted
in consultation with a UNT professor.
Please see the Honors College Summer Research Agreement form for additional rules
and expectations.
Application Requirements
- Upload a copy of your UNT Transcript with Fall 2025 grades.
- Sign and upload the Honors College Summer Research Agreement (A digital copy of the
agreement will be posted below).
- Faculty mentors must participate in the upload application process, indicating their
willingness to mentor the student for the 2026 summer and confirm information relative
to the project's IRB, IACUC, and IBC status. This form will be automatically emailed
to the listed mentor at the time of the student's application submission. The mentor
deadline is Friday, March 20th for the URF Mentor form. Applications missing a mentor
form by the mentor deadline may be disqualified.
The Honors College SUmmer Research Agreement will be made available here at a later
date. You will need a digital copy of this agreement to submit with your application.
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